Pence plans to resist special counsel subpoena in Jan. 6 probe - MSNBC Reports

[TexasTowelie]

Former Vice President Mike Pence and his legal team are planning to resist a special counsel subpoena for the Justice Department's investigation into former President Trump's role in the January 6 Capitol riot. NBC's Garrett Haake reports from Capitol Hill.

[Lettuce Be]

1. Wants to run for President of the USA but refuses to honor a subpoena? I say no to you, sir!

What an ass

[ancianita]

6. Wondering if Smith has to let Pence use the courts. Hope it's within his power to beat this faster

than the Garland DOJ and Jan 6 Committee could.

[ancianita]

8. Fine. I'm still thinking he can knock this down by March, get Pence's grand jury testimony, then

proceed with indictments by summer, more than six months before next February's first primary. Which will then not stop the courts.

No election season can stop courts once the indictments are made. Campaign season has only been a norm for stopping investigations over issues of a conflict of interest.

Not this time. Not after the perfect "due process" the DOJ has afforded all plaintiffs to-date.

[ancianita]

10. Haven't you noticed the courts are fed up with being used? That one or more judges have called

Trump a vexatious litigant? It's not "largesse." It just seems like wealth shouldn't be able to buy so much damned "due process" because judges don't want trial rulings appealed.

Pence testimony will be done by end of March. The cases are almost built. Then it will all hinge on Garland. Who won't overturn his own Special Counsel pick after all the work that's been done. Smith's indictments could be before June, and pre-trial motions could take another month. Juries will be empaneled by September and full on trials by fall.

[ancianita]

12. Who are the parties that could be subject to injunctions?

We shouldn't have to suffer the pace of rule of law, in one sense. In the other, we are obliged to respect courts' "due process." I can't disagree that we have a national security issue, but that's on the FBI, not the courts.

[housecat]

14. Absolutely! Trump wiped his shoes on Pence. He assumed Pence was too weak

and too deep in the same shit to fold. They are both trying to protect themselves and each other

[agingdem]

17. I think that's why Pence called Dan Quayle..

he was looking for any avenue to please his master but Quayle told me no.....Pence's outside counsel was so nervous Pence was going to cave to Trump he called Michael Luttig asking him for help...

Pence is no hero and I suspect if he complies with the subpoena and tells the real truth, the "Pence saved democracy" myth pretty much goes down the toilet.

[onecaliberal]

3. Immediate disqualification from ever running for office again. Under what grounds?

Telling the truth about pisswig will make people want to kill him, oh wait…

[madashelltoo]

4. Not even intimidated by a hangman's scaffold!

How driven to power do you have to be to blow off a murderous mob directed by your president? Really? He should have been the first one standing on DOJ steps demanding King Magat be prosecuted. Alienating nut jobs should not have any leverage in the issue.

[republianmushroom]

5. What have you got to hide, pence ?

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Heck, pence you can always declare the 5th amendment .

[housecat]

15. Everything. He's enabled crimes all along

[republianmushroom]

16. Yep

[bluestarone]

18. Religious FREAK (not a normal religious person) running our country?

I hope the fuck not! Boy do i hope the fuck NOT!

[justhanginon]

19. You can put Pompeo in the same category of religious freakos. The prospect

of any of these whack jobs running the country makes me shudder in both fear and disgust.